wow on our website also dot com and also that you can watch all the additions a week earning to view program that was broadcast here on our c including the one where he talks to ecuador and president rafael carette. there hasn't been a thing get on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism on we. we wanted to present. something real. longstanding conflict between israel and the palestinians continues with new evidence of children in the front line testimonies of former israeli soldiers and a shocking video of how israeli soldiers separate a mother from her daughter and a small palestinian village have taken the strive to

a new level. from tyler. and there's ready defense forces has come under fire from its own rank and file an organization known as breaking the silence has published the testimonies of some thirty israeli soldiers and commanders and which they deal specifically with how the i.d.f. treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the opportunity of violence by soldiers when it comes to children and at the same time they say that very often the idea. targets children using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also go on to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation as you can witness from that distance that we published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children for example we were doing constant arrest operations throughout the west bank arresting i don't

know how many people you know on a nightly basis and many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did in most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the raid operations that we had that we basically vetted the palestinian town in the south of the city of hebron. children started throwing stones at us so it's some point we picked a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as a shield so that the stones that were being thrown by his friends or by his supposed friends would hit him instead of us we were hoping that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help and he just got injured in the in the occasion now. coming out of another demonstration. which is a palestinian village in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their own not

one person was injured but. and there are pictures of this of one a woman. who was manhandled is what. they said not a good time for me and i've been criticized on a number of fronts policy r.t.e. television. and this brings us to the case of pro police sting in the us rachel corrie who was crushed by an israeli army bulldozing two thousand and three the twenty three year old was taking part in a demonstration trying to stop palestinian homes from being destroyed in gaza and a court ruled that israel was not responsible but journalist tom de lay who witnessed cory's death claims israel was trying to sweep the incident under the rug . it's tremendously just pointing out on the basis of what i saw on that day in two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happened next

to them in my view so i told the coach and as i told the israeli military before that bulldozer driver. a very long drive up. before he got to rachel during which time he must have been able to see even on the base of the this is a shot presented to the court by the threat of military. both took the bull the supply just before she was crushed and she climbed on a mound of trying to escape so my mind absolutely no doubt that he would have seen on this but it represents a want what happened on that day a culture in the israeli military impunity for such crimes and that culture impunity is the silly tainted fortunately sometimes by the courts who deliberately turn a blind eye of course the main shoulders on which the fools palestinian shoulders

because it's full of civilians almost every area civilian and so the israeli government to say we refuse to treat anyone in this area especially given that human rights because we've given it this particular name. coachmen treasonable happy to me i think that's just me serving that responsibility. this week iran was the center of the global political stage showing the despite economic sanctions and wanted spread the difficult it's not as isolated as largely believed that a geisha is from of the one hundred states gathered into iran for the nonaligned movement summit a group of nations who don't consider themselves part of any power block dozens of country leaders attended including egypt's new elected president mohamed morsi which marks the first visit to iran by an egyptian head of state since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the significance of the meeting was also in line by the presence of the e.u. outreach became despite the u.s. and israel discouraging him of doing so and independent research us arrive.

explains what that says about iran's role in the region the one. mr brime ki-moon does recognize the fact and he has said so this. player in the region and nothing much really can be solved you flowers if you want participation. i'm sure that the united states and israel would like. to come down hard on iran but he's also aware of the flag there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine aligned group united. and i think that's precisely because they do tend to be very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries in particular although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global vision monic power. the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent

coming together to resist this kind of aggression to resist this kind of double standards and hypocrisy and i think that's probably really thinking of the united states this finds. so the summit in ten runs resulted in a declaration stating every nation's right to peaceful development undies of energy of nuclear energy i should say seen as a by king of iran's controversial nuclear program it came just as in you were pulled by the un atomic watchdog and much accusing the islamic state of stepping up its uranium enrichment and political analyst eric draitser it sounds the timing of the release shows the i.a.e.a. is anything but unbiased they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law they look around them you look at the map and they see that they are surrounded literally on all sides by the united states or various allies of the

united states and the principle is quite clear that the united states will invade nations that do not have the threat of nuclear weapons and the united states does not invade the nations that do have that threat the. in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced a think tank individuals like eldora die or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law. and so i had a few there with a history of flip flopping on political issues u.s. republican presidential nominee and meet romney's becoming more of the punch line than a clear frontrunner for the white house. plus the years of radical islam spread throughout russia after muslim leaders coming up in the city of quetta.

but now britain's high court has given the final verdict this week in one of the most expensive battles in legal history south as the russian tycoon buries very has lost a multi-billion dollar police against his fellow countrymen are among the brim of that charles a football club owner a month long standoff between the two only gods living in the u.k. heard scandalous accusations of greed and as honesty smith takes a closer look at the case. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for for a. run up but i want to promote himself was not in court but is old school was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system what was the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system

now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the. old brushes make a richard what they go to two back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about a stiff sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash on the roof cools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's cruel to london to school building a billion eggs along with their own two roses megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this area in their shades in a menacing way but he spit his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i promote it intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for

a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact. whenever a business partners that he was making payments to but is also key but they were only for political protection. roof in russian which has become a common hollins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to put his old ski up full of political protection but he says that. they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made into huge cash thumbs up to five million dollars hundred cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid well but is also key to travel in a private jet that he bought him a french chateau and he also bought him jewelry for his girlfriend but as he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two for which this is been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been hundreds of hours and resulted in

millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've heard the results of this case no win this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. and of course plenty more news available on our website homeland i don't live for the stories that you might have been the start that he don't need to spend thousands of dollars to make a dream come true our chinese state is now driving a luxury sports car. mindgames chinese scientists close the gap between man and machine by planting controlled drivers all of us.

u.s. presidential candidates may troll nick criticized the current president barack obama for his handling of foreign affairs at the republican national convention this week his comments could be worse for other nations as america's presidential election approaches romney has a history of flip flopping on issues though so it's hard to tell what his message will become november. and explain. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any maasai towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone and of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements

that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for a lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration he was for giving them legal status that he was for deporting them mitt romney is flip flops have been widely discussed they've become an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is this is from the tonight show with jay leno it says actually mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change directions at any moment and another comedian goes

obama is like you can be whatever you want to be while romney is like i can be whatever you want me to be there are tons of jokes about mitt romney and his backbone issues apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this november election. or the two party system in the us some version of feel they are on to left with much of a troyes and later this hour also andrew levine shares what he sees as the flaw of america's electoral system but he is a. at the level of underlying political vision or underlying political orientation there isn't that much difference romney would probably be perfectly happy doing what obama does we have a media which is software although control and. all the institutions that manufacture opinion are so pervasive and our electoral system has become basically

i can advertising it's become sales promotions there are a brain and there are people trying to sell different products one of two products . and it's. a pressure that not all it's not so much of the pressure the tardiness is the pressure that most people work most people aren't even aware that there is an alternative. and let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world at least a dozen people are dead after a double suicide bombing near a military base in central afghanistan more than seventy others were injured the taliban said it sent out two bombers one driving a truck packed with explosives and on foot. belgian protests against the early release of the accomplice and ex-wife of a notorious child killer and paedophile have ended in scuffles with police the demonstrations took place outside

a convent where michel martin has been sent after serving just over hard her jail sentence the woman who was sentenced to thirty years in prison for letting two girls starve to death in the solo while helping her husband mark the true carry out sexual abuses on other girls. seven sure muslims have been shot dead in the city of quetta in pakistan police say gunmen on motorcycles forced the group off a bus and shot five of them two survivors try to run away but work trays down and killed that time is the latest in a wave of sectarian violence in pakistan has shown a group to blame the government for failing to halt the bloodshed. russia is a triscuit facing away with islamic radicalism after a dug a stunning muslim spiritual leader was assassinated in his house on tuesday a female suicide bomber and the clerics home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes in the wake of last month's double assault on muslim figures in the republic of tatarstan some experts believe the roots of

extremism lead all the way to the middle east but others say the threat from islamic hatred could become even stronger. now reports. the trip to work that turned to tragedy that our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among believers survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlight is now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in russia just some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where lacob is and is an official religion the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here so it's. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated

in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but abysmal any other radical movement of us live of course not part of the official religion here but i thought the same different ideas often taught in small mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks the aren't it's the moms denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance of visual branches of islam and we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit islam. we were told here believers are taught to sincerely and equality there are no longer up held in modern society looking with

justice can only be achieved through islam and when someone says islam is the only fair way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is chopped off. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal court nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for some experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in books by classical world famous author is a band or even some of prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react and of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course thought our son is a long way from becoming engulfed by the war stuff radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now key in the wrong could only worsen the situation. dr sun. or the

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welcome back this is nasty and these other stories the tribes this week western nations a round up calls for military intervention in syria in order to protect refugees but the phrase criticism all aiming to help rebels who's fighting tactics on choosing are accused of being brought in. during our sound my time to spend from six months to a whole gadd the ecuadorian embassy in london the whistleblower makes a full concentrating a range of you say hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the standoff. plus no longer and outcomes to iran refutes minutes of its international isolation by posting a high profile summit attended by leaders and senior a distance from over one hundred countries despite opposition from washington. i am

the winner takes it all russian business tycoon a roman abramovich wins a multibillion dollar battle against fellow countrymen various results in london pulled from the case one of his asian is updated dealings on brad. and next we discuss the upcoming u.s. presidential election and the troubles with america's political system was also andrew levin. we're sitting down with an author professor of philosophy and currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies injure a living thank you very much for joining me you contributed to a book it's titled hopeless barack obama and the politics of illusion what was the illusion in your opinion and how did it get hopeless well obama of course campaigned on the idea of hope and the possibility of change but he

was skillful in turning himself into something like a rorschach figure which anyone could see whatever they wanted to see the changes were not certainly ruptures with the past. they dashed at the expectations of virtually every constituency that supported him because really in vision and the transformations of american domestic and foreign policy that were far more far reaching than what obama actually. even attempted let alone achieved as far as foreign policy you're writing that president obama's wars could come back to bite him even the ones he didn't start but which you argue are his by now he pledged to withdraw from iraq and afghanistan he says that's what he doing in what way could they bite him well they could all fall apart. in effect the

united states lost both of those wars even before obama assumed office but the imperative that obama faced which was also the imperative that george bush faced in his final years was not to lose face i'd like you to expend a little bit on afghanistan you argued against any particular surname to a face saving operation for the president how is he handling that. well to the extent that he can develop a consensus in the political class in the united states to get out as soon as possible which seems to be happening not particularly through his own initiatives he will get out but unless that develops he is going to happen is going to have to be a continued presence there of some sort which is going to continue to wreak murder and mayhem and not to achieve any of the official objectives that the united states put forward in entering into that conflict in the first place if that explodes then

obama will look bad because the united states will look weak and it will look to it will look defeated in that way and that's not a recipe for success for someone who is barked on an electoral campaign aside from the wars already on the u.s. plate you wrote that by far the biggest bullet for president obama to dodge is a war against iran do you think it might actually happen i mean expert even in the was government say so crazy idea. well it looks now like obama has dodged that bullet at least until november by basically by by by buying off israel with our arms what do you think about the president's approach with regards to iran when he's trying to cater to to everybody in a way to the israelis by saying that he would be ready to go to war and to everybody else by saying that he actually doesn't like the drums of war and there's still a chance for diplomacy to work i think the result is that although he maybe have

succeeded in avoiding the war between now and the election and maybe even afterwards one could hope the rationale for the war remains intact and so so the danger that some events could transpire which would lead to. which would reignite the danger and maybe even lead to what to look at the eruption of the war remains real and obama hasn't effectively addressed that issue i think this is an instance of a general problem with obama's presidency and it's partly why it's very hard for anyone any of obama's supporters to come up with any reason for it. before supporting him especially for supporting him enthusiastically in the upcoming election other than that the alternative is so much worse. because whatever he's accomplished that could not on balance be given up

a plus it's always in cumbered by negatives that are very nearly cancel cancel out the benefits the contenders for the republican nomination they have a pretty scary rhetoric when it comes to foreign affairs everyone minus ron paul. they don't seem to have words political solution in their would capillary right and yet you called president obama the most hawkish of the lot why well who's the most hawkish of the lot with respect to some issues they're not with respect to to all issues his position on afghanistan. is at least momentarily probably more hawkish than that of mitt romney they they. they have all of them said that now is the time to get out and obama has the steward of the empire can't say that and so he.